Definition of printnext
1
as in impression
a perceptible trace left by pressure one telltale sign that I had been napping was the print left by the chenille bedspread on my cheek

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as in photo
a picture created from an image recorded on a light-sensitive surface by a camera we now get our prints developed online

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verb

as in to publish
to produce and release for distribution in printed form the newspaper's motto remains "All the News That's Fit to Print"

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Recent Examples of print
Noun
Fingerprint specialist Gilbert Aguilar, a defense witness, testified that police knew that Simpson's fingerprints did not match the identifiable prints recovered at the crime scene. — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2026 One year after Atkins’s algae cyanotypes, William Henry Fox Talbot published The Pencil of Nature, a book containing twenty-four calotypes, the first paper negative, which allowed multiple positive prints to be made from a single negative. — Andrew Zuckerman, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2026
Verb
And should the government decide to pay off the debt by simply printing more money, hello inflation. — Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026 Early ballots For most of the 1800s, American elections were conducted with ballots designed and printed by the parties. — Drew Kurlowski, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for print
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Noun
  • Ofl the newcomers on the roster, junior guard Trent Lincoln and sophomore forward DJ Thomas made the strongest first impressions.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Nov. 2026
  • A lot of these orderly compositions soon give off the impression of a cage — if Mari Kusu’s performance as Takeshi’s mother, bristling with frustration, didn’t already imply as much.
    — Kambole Campbell, Variety, 3 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • In this photo illustration, the logo of company Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited is displayed on a smartphone in front of abstract background on computer screen.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Police posted a photo on social media Sunday to alert residents to the incident and to advise them to check any candy their children had collected.
    — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • The administration said the work could begin as soon as the approval and the Interior Department issued a final decision authorizing construction and the proper notification was published by the National Park Service.
    — MATTHEW DALY, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2026
  • After alerting the companies to the problems, cybersecurity firm Claroty published research on vulnerabilities in multiple major refrigeration controllers, including those made by both the American manufacturer Copeland and by Danfoss.
    — Jenna McLaughlin, NPR, 6 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • Beer is attached to direct as well as adapt her novel, which will be published by Putnam, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in fall 2027.
    — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Tramberg’s own imprint on the festival as film curator and industry facilitator started more than 15 years ago.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 3 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • The Clinton library houses 78 million pages of official records, 20 million emails, and two million photographs.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2026
  • The endless snapshots of parties, wallpaper covered in butts, the many photographs of Kate Moss, videos of fashion shows, enlarged ad campaign stills—very little of it is good.
    — Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • Bank earnings impress, but Wall Street isn't buying Third-quarter bank earnings gave us reasons for optimism, even as largely solid results failed to translate into stock gains.
    — Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2026
  • And drug literature can be a hard sell for some, especially if the reader feels anxious about their own coolness, and develops a sort of you-won’t-impress-me-so-there carapace in advance as a form of self-protection.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • The pic world premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Simon Cowell is soaking up the sun with family in beach pics snapped two months after his back surgery.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • Annotation tools cover highlights, comments, pop-up notes, and stamps, giving reviewers several ways to mark up a file.
    — StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Existing models struggled with the low quality of the PDFs, which had unfamiliar formatting and sometimes contained stamps and errors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Nov. 2026

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“Print.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/print. Accessed 9 Nov. 2026.

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